Crew Management System to improve manning based on skills, experience and business requirements

About this project

<p><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="color: #000000">Crewing is one of the largest drivers of operating expenses of vessels. However, crew management systems are still not optimized based on the actual resources that will be needed on board in between dockings.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">Ulysses’ R&amp;D project aims to develop a software that will optimize the crew management for vessels, based on the skills and experience required to manage the planned essential maintenance and operations on board a vessel. The crew management software will solve the problem of having the correct crew members on board a vessel, while minimizing the crewing costs, based on actual needs that will arise during travel, using smart data delivered and provided from a variety of sources.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">The project has a Norwegian partner; VesselMan, a Cloud Based Software Development company. They will contribute to the project by integrating their leading dry dock software with the solution, to factor in the works that will be done during the dry dock in the crew management platform. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">Through the project, 1 new job and 1 new ICT solution will be created. Also, the company will increase its revenues and competitiveness in Greece. </span></span></p>

Bilateral cooperation results

The project involved close collaboration between a company based in Greece and a company based in Norway, both providing specialised software for the maritime sector. Through the project, the two solutions (Ulysses' software for planned maintenance works and VesselMan's software for drydock operations) were further integrated to incorporate crewing aspects included in Ulysses' upgraded crewing module. By offering a best of breed software, the companies are able to improve their offering to their clients as well as benefit from cross selling across the other's existing customer base. The two companies have also approached new clients together, presenting their unified solution.

Project partners

• VESSELMAN AS Donor project partner· Norway